10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • Heerema coming back to decommission North Sea platforms it installed in the ’90s

    11 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Heerema Marine Contractors has been awarded a decommissioning contract by DNO for the decommissioning of two UK platforms.

  • UK: DNS’ Event Informs Attendees of Latest Advances in Decommissioning Sector

    6 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Decom North Sea (DNS), the offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum, is hosting a Lunch and Learn event which will inform attendees on latest advances in the sector as well as giving advice on how to reduce costs and improve performance. The Lunch and Learn, which takes place this month, will feature presentations from three […]

  • BOEM seeks more assurances for decommissioning works. Oil firms not happy

    15 July 2016

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has notified companies holding oil and gas leases in US waters that it is updating financial assurance and risk management requirements for decommissioning and removing of offshore production facilities. BOEM’s said on Thursday that its Notice to Lessees and Operators (NTL) details “improved procedures” to determine a […]

  • Five things you need to know about the Technical Sessions on Decommissioning

    3 August 2016

    During OEEC 2016 we will have two Technical Sessions on Decommissioning. We’re bringing you five things you need to know. 1. Decommissioning within offshore energy is a highly complex and and technical part of the industry. In the future we may see more structures becoming redundant and being taken out of service. This covers oil […]

  • UK decommissioning costs fall but sector urged to pick up speed

    7 July 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy

    UK’s OGA has revealed that the decommissioning cost estimate has fallen to £46 billion (about $63.7 billion), the fourth year-on-year fall.

  • Dramatic cost cutting needed before North Sea decommissioning starts

    25 June 2015

    Supply chain companies in the East of England hoping to be involved in the dismantling of hundreds of platforms and plugging and abandonment of more than 400 wells must think “completely differently,” Bill Cattanach, of the new Oil & Gas Authority (OGA), told a conference in Norwich. Without dramatically lower costs, operators would not embark […]

  • SCORE Looking to Back Ideas for Maturing OWF O&M, Decommissioning

    26 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The team behind the GBP 6 million SCORE grant fund is looking to support companies from the oil & gas industry that can bring new ideas for long-term offshore asset management in the offshore wind sector.

  • Romania: GSP Expands its Fleet to Support Company’s Decommissioning Services

    31 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      GSP announces its drilling fleet has been extended up to seven offshore mobile drilling rigs and a modular one. GSP Britannia (ex. Britannia) and GSP Fortuna (ex. G.H. Galloway) entered GSP’s fleet in August. GSP Fortuna is an ABS class three legged independent leg cantilever jack-up rig reaching the maximum drilling depth of 25.000 […]

  • Kent buys decommissioning services firm in bid to become full-service energy provider

    21 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vision

    As part of its goal to become a full-service partner across the energy lifecycle, Dubai-headquartered engineering and services company Kent has signed a binding agreement to acquire Exceed (XCD) Holdings Limited, a Scottish provider of well management, subsurface and decommissioning engineering services. According to Kent, this acquisition marks its strategic expansion in the fast-growing global […]

  • The official launch of the National Platform for Re-use & Decommissioning during OEEC 2017

    14 September 2017

    The Dutch oil and gas sector is facing a challenge as over the coming decades, many of the oil and gas fields will reach the end of their economic life. This offers opportunities for the energy transition as infrastructure may be re-used for renewable energy sources. Where this is not possible, the industry will dismantle […]

  • USA: Cal Dive Wins USD 25 Million Offshore Decommissioning Gig

    31 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Cal Dive International, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a Field Abandonment and Decommissioning Contract from an operator in the Gulf of Mexico which includes the abandonment of sixteen wells, seven pipelines, and the removal of eight structures. The contract is expected to generate total revenue of approximately $25 million and will utilize […]

  • Allseas begins prep work for Australia’s ‘largest-ever’ offshore decommissioning job

    19 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    Allseas has begun the planning and preparation for what it says is the largest-ever offshore decommissioning assignment in Australia, encompassing the removal of up to 12 retired platforms. Allseas has been appointed by Esso Australia, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Australia, to remove 12 topsides and up to 11 steel jackets from the Gippsland Basin in […]

  • Australian maritime body urges ‘shakeup’ of oil & gas infrastructure decommissioning policy

    18 October 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vision

    The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is urging the Australian government for a major shakeup of government policy and regulation of the dismantling, processing, recycling and disposal of offshore oil and gas infrastructure. MUA, alongside Macquarie University’s Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Innovation and Transformation, launched a report in the Parliament House in Canberra […]

  • Mermaid Subsea scores multi-year North Sea decommissioning contract with Shell

    26 June 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) has received a multi-year engineering, preparation, removal, and disposal (EPRD) wellhead severance (WHS) contract in the North Sea from Shell UK.

  • Peterson and Veolia invest in new decommissioning facility to service Southern North Sea

    17 June 2015

    Peterson, an international energy logistics provider, in partnership with Veolia, the UK’s environmental solutions provider, has today announced a £1 million ($1.6 M) investment in the development of a new decommissioning facility in Great Yarmouth, UK.  According to the press release, the new site in Great Yarmouth Port, operated with joint venture partner Veolia, and developed […]

  • Ocean Kinetics and Green Marine wrap up OpenHydro tidal platform decommissioning

    19 December 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Two Scottish companies, Ocean Kinetics and Green Marine, have completed the decommissioning of OpenHydro’s tidal energy platform at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. According to Ocean Kinetics, the decommissioning project managed under a contract with EMEC, involved dismantling the platform’s steel superstructure and pile foundations. In April, Ocean Kinetics and Green Marine […]

  • Helix gets decommissioning extension at rates reflecting improved well intervention market

    7 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Helix Energy Solutions has secured the extension of its decommissioning contract with Trident Energy do Brasil at rates said to be in line with the improved well intervention market. The contract extension, expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2024, is for an additional 12 months and is in direct continuation of the current […]

  • DECOM North Sea Inks Contract with Shell for Brent Decommissioning Project (UK)

    11 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    DECOM North Sea member company, PDL Solutions (Europe) Limited, have been awarded a framework agreement with Shell UK Ltd to provide advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) support to the Shell UK engineering team on the Brent Decommissioning Project. PDL are a leading provider of advanced engineering design and analysis consultancy […]

  • UK: 3D Real-Time Technology from CodaOctopus Set For Decommissioning Tasks

    14 September 2010
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The unique 3D sonar technology of the Coda Echoscope® is set for new decommissioning projects in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. The benefits of the Echoscope’s 3D capabilities, which bring real-time visualisation to the underwater working environment, were substantiated in a successful role in a recent ‘plug and abandonment’ task in the […]

  • North Sea oil & gas operators urged to up production ante by stepping up well intervention and development drilling game

    28 October 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    As energy security concerns continue to run the show, Great Britain’s regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), has called on oil and gas operators to join forces and bolster well interventions and development drilling activities to revive shut-in wells to sustain domestic oil and gas production, which will lower the reliance on energy imports, support the supply chain, and unlock cost-efficient energy output.

  • UK’s National Subsea Centre bags grant to develop decommissioning AI-demonstrator

    10 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    The UK’s National Subsea Centre (NSC) and PlanSea, a spin-out company from Robert Gordon University (RGU), have secured a grant to develop a subsea decommissioning optimization software demonstrator with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The partners, which have collaborated for many years to utilize AI to optimize marine logistics, will now deploy the technology and skills developed to […]

  • Regulator takes action against Woodside over riser turret mooring decommissioning

    5 February 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Australian offshore petroleum regulator NOPSEMA has taken action against Woodside related to decommissioning of the Enfield field and Nganhurra FPSO.

  • UK start-up gets funds to reduce subsea decommissioning carbon footprint

    9 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Equipment, Innovation, Project & Tenders

    Legasea has secured funding from Scottish Enterprise for a project that aims to reduce the carbon footprint of subsea decommissioning operations by taking equipment that is no longer required and finding ways to refurbish, recertify, remanufacture and reuse it, keeping in use as many components as possible. The Aberdeenshire-based subsea services start-up plans to invest […]

  • EU endorses 235 cross-border energy projects to scale up electricity, hydrogen, and CO2 infrastructure

    4 December 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    As investment needs are anticipated to hover around €1.5 trillion by 2040, the European Commission (EC) has adopted a new list of 235 cross-border energy projects, granting them the status of projects of common interest (PCIs) and projects of mutual interest (PMIs).

  • Decommissioning Costs Could Be Cut 20 Pct, BP’s Win Thornton Says

    10 December 2013

    Experts from operators at the forefront of decommissioning in the Gulf of Mexico have been confirmed as keynote speakers at the largest decommissioning and abandonment gathering in the world taking place in Houston. Win Thornton, vice president for decommissioning at BP, and Lew Dennis, Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico decommissioning manager, are among the experts scheduled […]